Key Members of Congress Call for Permanent ICANN-US Tie

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Key Members of Congress Call for Permanent ICANN-US Tie

By CircleID Reporter
August 05, 2009, 10:58 pm PDT Views: 6,156 Add Comment

Philip Corwin of the Internet Commerce Associations reports: “In a stunning rebuke of ICANN’s assertion that it had achieved sufficient accountability and professional stature to justify termination of its unique relationship with the U.S. government, the Chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce as well as the Chairman of its Internet Subcommittee, along with eight other Committee members, dispatched a joint letter on August 4th to Commerce Secretary Gary Locke urging that the relationship between ICANN and the U.S. be made permanent and strengthened.”

Excerpt from the this letter:

“Rather than replacing the JPA with additional JPAs or Memoranda of Understandings that expire every few years, we believe the time has come for a permanent instrument to which ICANN and the Department of Commerce are co-signatories. This statement of commitments and principles would ensure that ICANN remains perpetually accountable to the public and to all of its global stakeholders.”

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